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File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1540: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π. | File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1540: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π. | ||
||1608: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli born ... physiologist, physicist, and mathematician. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation. | ||1608: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli born ... physiologist, physicist, and mathematician. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation. Pic. | ||
||1611: Johannes Hevelius born ... a councillor and mayor of Danzig (Gdańsk). As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still recognized by astronomers. Pic. | ||1611: Johannes Hevelius born ... a councillor and mayor of Danzig (Gdańsk). As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still recognized by astronomers. Pic. | ||
||1622: Adrien Auzout born ... astronomer and instrument maker. | ||1622: Adrien Auzout born ... astronomer and instrument maker. Pic: book cover. | ||
||1687: Johannes Hevelius dies ... was a councillor and mayor of Danzig (Gdańsk). As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still recognized by astronomers. Pic. | ||1687: Johannes Hevelius dies ... was a councillor and mayor of Danzig (Gdańsk). As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still recognized by astronomers. Pic. | ||
||1701: Charles Marie de La Condamine born ... mathematician and geographer. | ||1701: Charles Marie de La Condamine born ... mathematician and geographer. Pic. | ||
||1830: Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring dies ... physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. His investigations on the brain and the nervous system, on the sensory organs, on the embryo and its malformations, on the structure of the lungs, etc., made him one of the most important German anatomists. | ||1830: Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring dies ... physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. His investigations on the brain and the nervous system, on the sensory organs, on the embryo and its malformations, on the structure of the lungs, etc., made him one of the most important German anatomists. Pic. | ||
File:Sekiya Seikei.jpg|link=Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|1855: Geologist [[Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|Sekiya Seikei]] born. He will be one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake. | File:Sekiya Seikei.jpg|link=Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|1855: Geologist [[Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|Sekiya Seikei]] born. He will be one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake. | ||
||1864: Émile Clapeyron dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||1864: Émile Clapeyron dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1883: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], revealing new techniques for preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1883: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], revealing new techniques for preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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||1889: Joseph-Émile Barbier dies ... astronomer and mathematician, known for Barbier's theorem on the perimeter of curves of constant width. Pic search scant: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph-Émile+Barbier | ||1889: Joseph-Émile Barbier dies ... astronomer and mathematician, known for Barbier's theorem on the perimeter of curves of constant width. Pic search scant: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph-Émile+Barbier | ||
||1910: Alfredo Capelli dies ... mathematician who discovered Capelli's identity. Pic: | ||1910: Alfredo Capelli dies ... mathematician who discovered Capelli's identity. Pic search scanty: https://www.google.com/search?q=alfredo+capelli | ||
||1903: Dame Kathleen Lonsdale born ... crystallographer who proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931. | ||1903: Dame Kathleen Lonsdale born ... crystallographer who proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931. Pic. | ||
||1922: Robert W. Holley born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1922: Robert W. Holley born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1925: Raja Ramanna born ... physicist and politician. | ||1925: Raja Ramanna born ... physicist and politician. He was associated with and directed India's nuclear program for more than four decades, and also initiated industrial defence programmes for the Indian Armed Forces. Pic. | ||
||1932: Japanese forces attack Shanghai. | ||1932: Japanese forces attack Shanghai. | ||
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||1945: Richard Baldus dies ... mathematician, specializing in geometry. Pic. | ||1945: Richard Baldus dies ... mathematician, specializing in geometry. Pic. | ||
||1945: Maxwell Fuller dies ... chess player. | ||1945: Maxwell Fuller dies ... chess player. Pic. | ||
File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology. | File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology. | ||
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File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1988: Physicist [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]] dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War. | File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1988: Physicist [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]] dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War. | ||
||1993: Helen Sawyer Hogg dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||1993: Helen Sawyer Hogg dies ... astronomer and academic, noted for pioneering research into globular clusters and variable stars. Pic (plaque), pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=helen+sawyer+hogg | ||
||2012: Roman Juszkiewicz dies ... astrophysicist whose work concerned fundamental issues of cosmology. Pic. | ||2012: Roman Juszkiewicz dies ... astrophysicist whose work concerned fundamental issues of cosmology. Pic. | ||
||2015: Yves Chauvin dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2015: Yves Chauvin dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate for his work from the early 1970s in the area of olefin metathesis. Pic. | ||
||2017: John Norman Mather dies ... mathematician at Princeton University known for his work on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics. Pic. | ||2017: John Norman Mather dies ... mathematician at Princeton University known for his work on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics. Pic. | ||
Revision as of 08:53, 27 January 2019
1540: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.
1855: Geologist Sekiya Seikei born. He will be one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.
1883: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into Gnomon algorithm functions, revealing new techniques for preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1884: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe.
1885:Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt predicts that Auguste Piccard will "grow up to reach amazing heights, then go on to reach amazing depths."
1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic Nikolai Luzin dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.
1961: Brainiac Explains lecture series spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.
1962: Ranger 3 space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1988: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.
2018: Signed first edition of an excerpt from "Burglars" sells for two and a half million dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Lend a Hand unexpected reveals "at least half a megabyte" of encrypted data relating to organic golem technology.